Cannonball of Death

Cannonball of Death

Welcome to Anti-wave Podcast, where Robert Cannon + Ira Heffler discuss all your Anti-wave movie needs. What the hell is Anti-wave, you ask? Great question. In short, Anti-wave is a way to describe films that seek to buck the typical Hollywood trends. Anti-wave is an opportunity to reimagine the way we construct genre films. Anti-westerns have been popular in the years since WWII, but where are the anti-sports films that try to shake off the expected formulaic writing? This podcast tries to find those films for you. Along the way, we deliver some laughs, get into film theory, and speak with filmmakers who share our anti-sentiment. So, welcome to Anti-wave Podcast! We hope you enjoy the ride.

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Episode 287: Sorcerer and Top 5 Hidden Gem Movies
28-08-2023
Episode 287: Sorcerer and Top 5 Hidden Gem Movies
Last time Ira and Robert tried to drive a bunch of explosives through the jungle in the middle of a monsoon, they blew it up. That’s it. That’s the intro. They just didn’t accidentally blew up the explosives, and they failed at their mission. Why does every intro have to be funny? Can’t some intros just be an accurate reflection of what happened? Sheesh. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss SORCERER and share their top hidden gem movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a bad dude and a couple of really bad henchmen want you dead and you end up in a godforsaken village and you’re offered a job to transport a shit load of explosives to another town to put out a fire and they’ll give you a shit load of money and a passport and so you agree to do it and team up with three other nasty dudes and fix up a couple of wrecked trucks and off you go, and your truck barely makes it across a rickety bridge, and then you barely make it across another rickety bridge that’s falling apart in the rain, and some evil dudes rob you but you kill them, and some tree trunks block the road and you use the dynamite in the truck to explode the trunks, and the other truck blows a tire and swerves off the road and explodes, and you finally make it back to the bar and you ask an ugly woman to dance but the really bad henchmen who want you dead enter the bar, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 285: Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado and Top 5 Hitman Movies
11-07-2023
Episode 285: Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado and Top 5 Hitman Movies
You're gonna want to armor up for this episode. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss a double feature SICARIO and SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO and share their top hitman movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a beautiful by-the-book FBI special agent assigned by the government to a task force to bring down the main leader of a Mexican drug cartel and you hate the unwarranted violence, and a police officer puts the make on you but he’s working for the cartel, and there are lots of bullets flying all over the place, and you discover the wife and daughter of one of your team members was killed by the cartel, and to get even he brutally kills the cartel’s wife and kids and then the cartel dude himself, and he forces you at gunpoint to sign a document that everything the task force did was kosher, and you have the opportunity to kill him, but you don’t… but wait, there’s more that happens and lucky for you you’re no longer involved when the dude who killed the cartel’s family now goes to Mexico to stir up trouble among two opposing cartels, and he kidnaps the daughter of a cartel kingpin but makes it appear it was done by the other cartel, and things get royally fucked up and the daughter wanders off in the desert and he goes after her and there’s more chaos and lots of bullets flying all over the place and good thing you’re not even in this part of the story, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 283: The Rock and Top 5 Worse Than You Remember Movies
30-05-2023
Episode 283: The Rock and Top 5 Worse Than You Remember Movies
When Robert and Ira went to San Francisco to visit Alcatraz, all they came back with was a scorching case of herpes. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss THE ROCK and share their top ‘worse than you remember’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be an FBI agent who specializes in explosives and your girlfriend is pregnant and as you propose to her, you’re needed by the Government because an angry dude captured a bunch of tourists on Alcatraz and put them in prison cells and is demanding a shit load of money for the families of soldiers who died in covert missions, and he’s got missiles loaded with nasty shit that can wipe out San Francisco, and you go to a long-haired dude who is in jail because a covert mission backfired and he escaped from Alcatraz years ago and he helps you and your team break into the prison, but you get found out and the bad guy fires a missile but it goes off course and falls into the ocean and it was more of a bluff and he only wanted to threaten the Government to pay out big bucks, but then the bad dude’s henchman goes nuts and wants to destroy the city and you shove a green sphere of poison into his mouth and you fire the last missile into him and he gets blown to bits, and then you shove a long needle into your heart so the bio poison won’t kill you, and fighter planes are flying to Alcatraz to bomb the island and you hold up green flares which means to abort the bombing, and then you lie to your supervisors and tell them the guy who helped you out was killed so he can go free, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 276: The Whale and Top 5 Fat Movies
23-01-2023
Episode 276: The Whale and Top 5 Fat Movies
Everyone warned us that this movie only takes place in one location. But when they said Brendan Fraser sits around the house, they really meant he sits around the house! Join Robert and Ira as they discuss THE WHALE and share their top fat movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be mega huge and morbidly enormous - I mean, we’re talking a gigantic slob of a man with rolls of fat - and you’re a writing teacher and you’re gay, and you left your wife to fuck a male student who died, and your daughter and ex-wife are uber-pissed, and your caregiver, who is also your best friend and your only friend, watches as you shove hunks of chicken and pizza into your mouth, and you Zoom with your writing students and tell them to be honest when they write but your camera is turned off, and your daughter shows up and she’s an angry bitch and she wants you to pay her to visit you and write her school essays, and a religious dude drops by who tries to get you to embrace God, and then your ex-wife shows up and she’s a piece of work, and you tell your bitchy and manipulative daughter to write anything as long as it’s honest and when you Zoom with your students you turn your camera on and show them your disgustingly fat body, and your daughter forces you to stand up and walk toward her and you die, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 275: Fall and Top 5 Stuck Movies
03-01-2023
Episode 275: Fall and Top 5 Stuck Movies
The last time Robert and Ira climbed a mega-tower, Ira said, “This view is breathtaking!" Robert replied, "Yeah, and it would be even better if we weren't standing on the bottom rung of the ladder!” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss FALL and share their top stuck movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be rock climbing with your husband and he falls to his death, so you get drunk and lash out at your dad and you can’t move on with your life, but your girlfriend talks you into climbing a tall radio tower and you’re scared shitless but up you go, then at the top the rusty ladder gives way and you and your BFF are stuck up there with no cell reception because you’re up too high, so you lower your cell phone on a string but that doesn’t work, and you look down and see some punks steal your car, and you find out your BFF was fucking your sweetie and your leg is all fucked up and crows are trying to eat you, then your BFF lowers herself to reach for a drone but the battery is dead, so you climb up to the very top with its blinking red light, unscrew the bulb, and use that to charge the drone, and the small plane flies to get help but just before it lands, it gets hit by a truck, and it turns out you were hallucinating and your BFF is dead, and you eat a vulture, shimmy down to your dead BFF, stuff the cell phone into her carcass and toss her off the tower, then this podcast is for you!